Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's IronyWhy do we hate Milton's God? Victoria Silver reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. |
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... effect, precisely because we refuse to distinguish our religious notions from the truth. For as the rationalist bias ... effects the grand object of inquiry, there is the lurking suggestion that our study aims to repair something gone ...
... effect not only of making his truth unpalatable but also of rendering its justification injurious, intolerable. I need hardly mention that once Empson renewed this question of the poem's difficulty, Stanley Fish, Joseph Summers ...
... effect created by what he (and many critics after him) describes as a stringent, calculated, almost syllogistic economy of poetic meaning—not a jot or tittle of verse free from the task of justifying God's ways to us. And this should ...
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